consciousness

In considering whether the mind is greater than the brain, it may be useful to put the question the other way: Is the brain more than the mind?

As hard as it is to emotionally perceive, one’s country is not the world; the world is not man; man is not humanity; and humanity is not the universe.

A hundred meters upstream, a little girl jumps up and down and runs little circles in the shallows of the stream. In between these contented antics, she dashes back and…

Meditations – On an early spring afternoon along the stream that runs along the periphery of the town, a huge, smooth shelf of a cloud juts out from halfway up…

The animal spotted me jogging up the path in the park. It stopped and turned about 100 meters ahead, and then again at 75 meters. It was the size and…

From inside, the day is uniformly gray and dreary, as another in a long series of storms off the Pacific discharges rain and wind in northern California. But on the…

Sitting on the patio during a drizzle, the wind suddenly picks up, the rain falls harder, and there’s a feeling almost of fury about the earth.

There was a time, not so long ago, when there was space for the individual to be different, and to forge a new path in a new place. Now physically,…